It may be hard to believe, but common plastic items we use every day may be extremely dangerous.

Exposure during pregnancy to the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, found in many common plastic household items, is known to cause a fertility defect in the mother’s offspring in animal studies. Endocrinologist Hugh Taylor says, “The big mystery is how does exposure to this estrogen-like substance during a brief period in pregnancy lead to a change in uterine function.”To find the answer to that question, Taylor and his team injected pregnant mice with a low dose of BPA. After the mice gave birth, they analyzed the uterus of female offspring and extracted DNA.
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It’s Mount St. Helen’s again! – Is there a supervolcano lurking underneath Mount St. Helens in Washington State, which already erupted in 1980? Scientists now have special instruments that enable them to “peek” beneath the seemingly dormant volcano, and they have seen a large amount of semi-molten rock, which could set off another eruption at any time.

A supervolcano is a major eruption that can send up enough ash into the atmosphere to block sunlight for years, thus cooling off the planet (which might be just what we need right now. Together with the lack of sunspots, the earth may be desperately trying to save itself). Since these only occur about once every hundred thousand years, scientists tend to ignore this very real threat.
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Whitley Strieber has had a number of experiences over the years involving sudden slips in time and movement through time. He had two recently, one on June 11 and a second on June 12. Starfire Tor is an expert on time displacement, and Whitley and Anne have experienced one in her presence, which Anne wrote about in 2006.

So when he had these two most recent slips, it was logical that he would turn to Starfire for information. Here is his email to her:

“Yesterday: Saw an article on BBC news website yesterday AM: ?Evidence that French Plane Broke Up in the Air.? Went to click on the link, it was no longer there. This did not get reported until the afternoon.
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Biologists who study animal behavior are becoming convinced that all mammals have a moral code of conduct, not just primates (like us) and more advanced species. Anne Strieber can attest to this! And why have some animals traditionally become tamed, while others haven’t. It turns out our pets have a “tameness” gene.

US ecologist Marc Bekoff believes that morality is “hard-wired” into the brains of all mammals and are the “social glue” that allows aggressive and competitive animals to live together in groups (even humans can’t always do that!)
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